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Looking through the sources, and ignoring the question of dates for a bit, the full "Tale of Years" would consist of:
- Annals of Aman (years before the Trees)
- Annals of Aman (Years of the Trees, through to Awakening of the Quendi)
- NoME 1.XIII.1 (Awakening to Debate)
- A little from Annals of Aman and NoME 1.XIII.3 (fall of Angband and Utumno)
- NoME 1.VII (the Great March)
- Annals of Aman (end of the March to creation of the Sun and Moon)
- Grey Annals (full text)
- First Age Tale of Years (the fragments in WotJ, to fill out the end of the First Age)
- Tale of Years (LotR version, or from PoME if it is more complete)
There will be minor absences, but by stealing sentences from random texts you can fill them in with genuine Tolkien words.
But it still won't be what I think Findegil is saying, which is a Tolkien work. The Annals are not a Tale of Years - they go into way too much detail, often becoming the primary source for a story. The 20 years of Turin's shenanigans occupy 20 pages - the entry for FA 499 alone runs to 6 pages. You would need to pick out a sentence or two from each to capture the key events of the year, which is a very heavy editorial hand.
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